FLORUS, IULIUS, poet, orator, and jurist of the Augustan age. Horace dedicated to him two of his Epistles (i. 3; ii. 2), from which it would appear that he composed light lyrics. The statement of Porphyrion, the old commentator on Horace, that Florus himself wrote satires, is probably erroneous, but he may have edited selections from the earlier satirists (Ennius, Lucilius, Varro). He was one of the young men who accompanied Tiberius to Armenia. He has been variously identified with Iulius Florus, orator and uncle of Quintilian's friend Iulius Secundus (Instit. x. 3, ; with the leader of an insurrection of the Treviri (Tacitus, Ann. iii. 4o) ; with the Postumus of Horace (Odes, ii. 14) and even with the historian Florus.